867N.01/915a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Jerusalem ( Wadsworth )
The Department would appreciate your comments on press reports emanating from Jerusalem regarding the imposition of a strict censorship in Palestine by the British authorities, the removal of the Grand Mufti as head of the Supreme Moslem Council, and action looking to his deportation along with other Arab leaders who are reported as having already been arrested and removed to the British cruiser Sussex in Haifa harbor.
The Department would be pleased also to receive from you a general estimate of the present state of public order in Palestine to be followed by reports by telegraph as circumstances warrant so long as the situation may remain in a state of uncertainty.